There were a record number of submissions this year for
the annual Memphis Business Journal Health Care Heroes Awards, and
a record number of new contenders. So even after the fifth round
of selecting finalists, the breadth and depth of the local health
care industry is still being probed.
The Health Care Heroes Awards is a yearly event that recognizes
people in the healing arts who go above and beyond the norm.
And there's some intriguing patterns in this year's finalists.
In the category of Administrative Excellence, all but one finalist
is a hospital executive. The other, Lee Booth of Nursing Innovations,
is an entrepreneur and was a finalist earlier this year in MBJ's
Small Business Awards.
In Community Outreach, there's a for-profit apartment company that's
sponsored extraordinary health care initiatives completely unrelated
to the housing industry. This category also has the first-ever lawyer
for the awards, an immigration expert who's found a way to alleviate
the physician shortage in rural areas.
The Innovations category includes research and clinical care. One
finalist, surgeon Thom Lobe, was at the forefront of laparoscopic
surgery a decade ago and is now leading the way in robotic surgery.
Among Health Care Providers (Non-Physician) we have two nurses and
two people who work in very different areas of mental health.
In Health Care Provider (Physician) there are two surgeons, an oncologist
with a passion to stop pain and an internist dedicated to training
tomorrow's doctors.
In the Lifetime Achievement category, which includes James Pate,
whose surgical discoveries in the 1960s and 1970s made much of Lobe's
work possible later on. There's also Dick Shadyac, the best friend
of Danny Thomas who's dedicated his life to making sure that St.
Jude has always had money in the bank.
Independent judges will evaluate the finalists and select a recipient
for the award in each category. The awards banquet will be Sept.
4 at the Park Vista Hotel.
- David L. Archer, president & CEO, Saint Francis Hospital
- Lee Booth, CEO, Nursing Innovations, Inc.
- Robert S. Gordon, executive vice president and chief administrative
officer, Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp.
- Cecelia Wilson Sawyer, senior vice president, administrator, Methodist-University
Hospital
- Hope House, Betty DuPont, executive director
- Mid-America Apartment Communities, Frank McRae, director
- Para los Ninos, Gail Beeman, principal investigator; Marian Levy,
co-investigator; Espi Ralston, project coordinator
- Gregory Siskind, partner, Siskind Susser, Attorneys at Law
- John Coleman, vice president, Therapeutics Production & Quality,
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Genome Explorations, Divyen Patel, CEO, and Arno Justman, chief
operating officer
- Thom E. Lobe, professor and chair, Section of Pediatric Surgery,
UT Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center
- Gary L. Murray, cardiologist and president of Murray Heart Clinic
- Debra J. Barnes, chief flight nurse, Hospital Wing of Memphis
- Linda K. Oxford, clinical director, AGAPE Child & Family Services
- Patricia Webb-Murphy, nurse, Shelby County Health Department
- Edward A. Wise, executive director, Mental Health Resources
- Neal Beckford, otolaryngologist, Otolaryngology Associates of
the Mid-South
- Tim Fabian, chairman of the Department of Surgery, UT-Memphis
- Stephen T. Miller, internist and vice president of Medical Education
& Research, Methodist-University Hospital; associate dean, UT
College of Medicine
- Lee S. Schwartzberg, medical oncologist, medical director and
senior partner, The West Clinic
- Russell W. Chesney, pediatrician, professor and chair of the UT
Department of Pediatrics
- Larry Johnson, OB/GYN, Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
- James W. Pate, surgeon, UT Department of Surgery
- Richard C. Shadyac, national executive director of ALSAC
Contact staff writer Scott Shepard at 259-1724
or sshepard@bizjournals.com
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